Dr Michael McEachrane

Michael McEachrane has a PhD in Philosophy from Åbo Akademi
University in Finland. He is currently a visiting assistant professor of
postcolonial studies at the University of Bremen in Germany. Previously, he has
held teaching positions in philosophy, African American studies and human
rights studies in the US and Sweden. Among his publications are news media as
well as academic journal articles and three edited collections, Sverige och de Andra: Postkoloniala
perspektiv [Sweden and the Others: Postcolonial Perspectives] (Natur &
Kultur, 2001), Emotions and
Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in
Northern Europe with a foreword by Paul Gilroy (Routledge, 2014). Dr
McEachrane is also a seasoned international activist in the areas of
anti-racism and reparatory justice.

Dr McEachrane's research at the Institute of Advanced
Studies will focus on the concepts of 'colonial legacies' and 'reparatory
justice' for such legacies. He will explore why and how it is significant to
speak of injustices of racial stratification, domination and exploitation in
Europe, its former colonies and international relations as colonial legacies. He
will also explore how such legacies legitimately are in need of reparatory
justice.